EPSTEIN v. CONTINENTAL BANK & TRUST CO.


260 Pa.Super. 522 (1978)

394 A.2d 1049

Ellen EPSTEIN, Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY and Industrial Valley Bank and Trust Company, Appellees.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil E. Jokelson, Philadelphia, for appellant.

C. Lawrence Rutstein, Harrisburg, with him Kenneth F. Carobus, Philadelphia, for appellee, Industrial Valley Bank and Trust Co.

No appearance entered nor brief submitted for appellee, Continental Bank and Trust Co.

Before PRICE, HESTER and HOFFMAN, JJ.


HESTER, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order granting a petition to open a default judgment.

Almost 18 months passed between the filing of the complaint and the taking of the default judgment. The lower court opened the default reasoning that appellant's failure to give notice of the entry of the default constituted a "snap" judgment.

As far as we can determine, the factual picture (taken from the depositions of the two attorneys involved), was as...

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